Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 24, 2019

One of the most common ways by which malicious actors perpetrate account takeover (ATO) fraud is via password brute forcing attacks. These types of campaigns are meant to guess users’ passwords by successively attempting commonly employed combinations as well as those that use well-known dictionary words. Just the Beginning….

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The attacker gained initial access to two employee accounts by carrying out social engineering attacks on the organization’s help desk twice. Scattered Spider previously targeted telecommunications firms, likely to support its SIM-swapping activities that facilitate account takeovers.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

It's the address on Aadhaar's Twitter account , it's the first result on a Google search and time and time again, it's promoted as the site people should go to before doing anything else Aadhaar related. This is poor form as it can break tools that encourage good security practices such as password managers.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Incidentally, Lorenzo who wrote that Motherboard piece is a top-notch infosec journo I've worked with many times before and he reported accurately in that piece.) Speaking of which: New self-submitted breach: devkitPro had 1,508 accounts impacted in a data breach last week. 79% were already in @haveibeenpwned.

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

This is how the scammers “fatten the pig” until the right time to “butcher it,” when they take all the money out of the account. Use strong passwords, and ideally a password manager to generate and store unique passwords. Once the victim invests, they will keep pressuring them to pour in more money.

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The Security Ledger

MAY 8, 2019

Also: we continue our series on life after the password by speaking to Ian Paterson, the CEO of behavioral authentication vendor Plurilock. Abine says Blur Password Manager User Information Exposed. The post Episode 145: Read the whole entry. » Chris Wysopal is the Chief Technology Officer of Veracode.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 20, 2021

Manages permissions. Maintained by infosec teams. Manages identifying information. The resource owner can directly register with the client’s service without replugging their personal information for the new account. Also Read: Best Password Management Software & Tools. Not visible to user.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The attacker gained initial access to two employee accounts by carrying out social engineering attacks on the organization’s help desk twice. Scattered Spider previously targeted telecommunications firms, likely to support its SIM-swapping activities that facilitate account takeovers.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. Lots of accounts including Bezos, Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Mr Beast, and a ton more getting hacked for a bitcoin scheme.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Anyway I was testing this suite when I happened to randomly strike two keys -- I think it was control and B -- and up popped the password manager, displaying all my test passwords in the clear. Thing was, the manager required its own password, which I had not entered; remember, I had hit only two keys. Wait, what?

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Anyway I was testing this suite when I happened to randomly strike two keys -- I think it was control and B -- and up popped the password manager, displaying all my test passwords in the clear. Thing was, the manager required its own password, which I had not entered; remember, I had hit only two keys. Wait, what?

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

Vamosi: Within InfoSec there's an informal use of AppSec as well. This can be from your personal checking account or business account. The Chromebook is about $200 Now, the Chromebook however, is going to require you to log into your Gmail account and hiding that is a bit beyond the skill level in this episode.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 1, 2021

Passwords are a hot topic on social media at the moment, due to the re-emergence of a discussion about good password management practices. There’s a wealth of password management options available, some more desirable than others. The primary recommendation online is usually a software-based management tool.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The service was obviously rather popular because within days the tech (and mainstream) headlines were proclaiming that thousands of hacked Disney+ accounts were already for sale on hacking forums. This compromise would expose all their accounts to be exploited /for their services only/. Password manager? Password manager?

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